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Francesca Federico & Lucas Bouk To Give Recital in NYC

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Soprano Francesca Federico and baritone Lucas Bouk are set to give a recital in NYC on Dec. 22. The duo offers and evening of intimate art song featuring works such as Debussy’s “Les Cinq Poèmes de Charles Baudelaire,” Brahms’ “Zigeunerlieder,” Vaughn William’s “Songs of Travel” and songs by Rebecca Clarke, Amy Beech, and Tosti. They are accompanied by pianists Dan {…}
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Lucas Bouk to Headline in ChamberQUEER’s Pride Festival

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ChamberQUEER will celebrate NYC’s Pride Week with its pride festival titled, “Part of The Future Is…” Events will take place on June 10 and 12 and be held at National Sawdust. Both ChamberQUEER and National Sawdust strive to highlight historically underrepresented LGBTQ+ people in western classical music by collaborating with today’s queer artists. The works to be presented are written, {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

A Second Debut – How Transgender Baritone Lucas Bouk Made a New Beginning With a New Voice

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Credit: Karjaka Studios “As more people transition, the [opera] industry is going to realize that transgender singers are just like any other singers. I was transphobic in my own beliefs and thought; ‘The voice will be less. It won’t be operatic in quality.’ There are some risks, of course, but I have the same lyric baritone range as a lyric {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Interview: Baritone Lucia Lucas On Making Historic U.S. Debut In ‘Don Giovanni’

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On May 3, 2019 the Tulsa Opera will host an American first. According to a carefully worded press release, it will be “the first time a trans woman has performed a principal role on the operatic stage in the US.” Baritone Lucia Lucas will make her American main-stage debut in the title role of Mozart and da Ponte’s “Don Giovanni.” {…}
IndieOpera

Killer Queen Opera & Gallery Particulier to Present ‘MADAM’

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Killer Queen Opera and Gallery Particulier will present the new opera “MADAM” for three performances in Flatbush on Nov. 7 – 11, 2025. The site-specific production will be staged in the gallery’s intimate performance space. The opera, by composer Felix Jarrar and librettist Bea Goodwin, centers on Polly Adler, a Jewish immigrant and prominent Prohibition-era New York madam whose influence {…}
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Killer Queen Opera to Showcase ‘Madam, the life and story of Polly Adler’

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Killer Queen Opera is set to present “Madam, the life and story of Polly Adler” on March 1, 2025. The opera is written by Bea Goodwin and composer Felix Jarrar and explores the life of the Belarusian-Jewish immigrant who ushed in modern-era sex work. Starring as Polly is Karina Camile Parker. She is joined by a cast that includes Annika {…}
News

Expansive: A Showcase of Transgender & Nonbinary Classical Artists’

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On August 8 and 9, Opera Parallèle and The Transgender District is set to present “Expansive: A Showcase of Transgender & Nonbinary Classical Artists.” The showcase will feature baritone Lucas Bouk, bass-baritone Wilford Kelly, and violinist Queen Angelina as they take on music by such composers as Giordani, Brahms, R. Strauss, Vaughan Williams, Mozart, Verdi, Massanet, and Gershwin, among others. {…}
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Opera Parallèle & The Transgender District to Present ‘Expansive’

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Opera Parallèle will join forces with The Transgender District to present “Expansive.” The program, set for August 8 and 9 at the A.C.T. Strand Theater in San Francisco will feature nonbinary and transgender artists in concert. Among the performers are Lucas Bouk, Wilford Kelly, and Queen Angelina. Afrika America will accompany at the piano. Opera Parallèle has commissioned a song {…}
IndieOpera

Opéra Queens Presents ‘A Night of 1000 Cleopatras’

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Photo credit: Lauren Halasz Canadian indie opera company Opéra Queens is set to present “A Night of 1000 Cleopatras” in Montréal from August 9-12. Lucas Bouk, Ryan Colbert, Vanessa Naghdi, Laura Corina Sanders, Rain Saran Senavinin, and drag diva Tanya Smania explore the myths, misconceptions, and legacy of Cleopatra through curated arias, ensembles and other works. The audience will enjoy {…}

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